Warning: This fanfic contains YAOI! and FLUFF! and SAPPINESS! Like it? Read and leave a review! Don't like it? Read anyway and leave a flame! Thank you!
Long, long ago, there lived a young duke. His name was Ryuuji. One day, Ryuuji was showing off his skills with the dice to some peasant girls. He suddenly heard a sweet melodious voice say behind him: "Wow, that's wonderful!" He turned slowly and looked directly into the eyes of a certain Tristan. It was love at first sight. Within a week, they were married. Ryuuji sold and left all his worldly affairs to his relative, and they went into the country and worked a small farm and lived happily ever after.
Or so they would have if it hadn't been for the intervention of a certain person. Ishtar. Ishtar was very much in love with the handsome duke, as well as his money, and had tried wooing him on several previous occasions, in vain of course. The loss of him to a commoner was too much for his vanity to bear.
Therefore Ishtar, a practitioner of Dark Magic, went to their pretty little farm in the country and found the two lovebirds cuddling in the kitchen. Thereupon he uttered a curse and Ryuuji disappeared. Tristan, torn with rage and worry, assaulted Ishtar with powerful blows. However Ishtar proclaimed that Ryuuji was banished to be imprisoned in the sea forever. And he uttered a spell and they were transported by means of dark magic, to a sea-side.
Tristan stood facing the sea, Ishtar stood facing the land. To save his love from the dreary confinement of the water prison, Tristan had to duel Ishtar, by means of dark magic. To Ishtar's surprise, Tristan agreed, for Ryuuji was an Adept and experienced in the Dark Arts, and had tutored his lover excellently. They therefore whipped out their Dark Magic objects, consisting of cards, each containing an individual monster, and powerful spells and traps, to be activated, at their master's will.
Ishtar and Tristan dueled terribly for three days and three nights. The sky grew dark and the winds howled. All the animals covered in fright, and the people shut their doors, and did no trading, as they realised something evil was afoot and god bless the ones who met it.
At last Tristan drew his most powerful monster, and Ishtar was defeated. The waters parted, Ryuuji came running out of the sea. But Tristan was severly exhausted, for the long duels had finished off all his mental and physical resources. He tumbled into Ryuuji's arms, dying content in the embrace of a loved one. Ryuuji clasped him in his amrs, and shed mournful tears for his lost love. Then, determined not to let Tristan go alone to the gods, Ryuuji carried his body and walked towards the line joining water and sky. Eventually, he disappeared together with his unbreathing lover.
"Thus ends the tragic tale of Tristan and Ryuuji," Anzu, drawing her story dramatically to a close. Ryou and Yuugi sighed, Jyounouchi snorted, Honda and Otogi looked scandalised. Anzu noted their expressions and giggled.
"But why did you have to use my name?" Otogi asked. "I don't know....." Anzu said thoughtfully. "It seemed appopriate at the time....."
"It fits actually!" Jyounouchi said, grinning widely. "When we first met Otogi, he was showing off to some girls, ne?" This sent everyone into fits of laughter.
Afterwards, everyone had left the classroom, with the exception of Honda and Otogi.
Otogi smiled mischeviously and reached for the draft that Anzu had left behind. "Shall we rewrite the ending a little?" Honda nodded, and identical smirk on his face.
Thus they wrote:
As Ryuuji was
about to be buried completely in the crashing waves, he turned his love's
face to his. It was serene and peaceful, as if asleep. Ryuuji's eyes filled
with tears again, and he bent over to give his lover one last kiss.
The kiss deepened and slowly, ever so slowly, Tristan's eyelids fluttered open. And Ryuuji cried tears of joy and Tristan hugged him as tight as ever and they went back to their little farm in the country and lived happily ever after.
Honda and Otogi sighed happily at the ending. The looked at each other.
"
I was always a sucker for happy endings."
"Good, how 'bout acting out that last part?"
"I'm not sure I can carry you...."
"Well, just the kissing part."
"But...koibito.....Surely not here.....Someone might be watching....."
Otogi's breathing got a little harder.
"So be it." Honda silenced his lover with a kiss.
That was the most sappy thing I've ever wrote. Oh yeah, Tristan is Honda's name in the dub, and Otogi's Duke. Get it? And Ishtar refers to Yami Malik, not the normal Malik. To tell the truth I got this inspiration when I came across a line in a book that said something about the endless waiting and someone, name starting with I, rushed up from the sea, the the guy waiting for her, Tristan, died in her arms. Don't know what that was all about, but I thought, hey, isn't Tristan Honda's other name, therefore creating this crappy little bit of fan fiction. Remember to leave a review!